Comments on: The Six Ugliest Space Lego Sets http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2008/01/29/the-six-ugliest-space-lego-sets/ the blog that is not dansdata.com Mon, 13 Oct 2008 06:19:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1-alpha by: Thuli http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2008/01/29/the-six-ugliest-space-lego-sets/#comment-1978 Thu, 31 Jan 2008 13:17:06 +0000 http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2008/01/29/the-six-ugliest-space-lego-sets/#comment-1978 early to mid 80's would be the rough time frame early to mid 80’s would be the rough time frame

]]> by: Thuli http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2008/01/29/the-six-ugliest-space-lego-sets/#comment-1977 Thu, 31 Jan 2008 13:15:04 +0000 http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2008/01/29/the-six-ugliest-space-lego-sets/#comment-1977 I had instructions to build this giant UFO shapped Spaceship, I don't think it was ever released as a set, but it was pretty weird looking, anyone know what I'm talking about? I had instructions to build this giant UFO shapped Spaceship, I don’t think it was ever released as a set, but it was pretty weird looking, anyone know what I’m talking about?

]]> by: Daniel Rutter http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2008/01/29/the-six-ugliest-space-lego-sets/#comment-1974 Wed, 30 Jan 2008 13:02:38 +0000 http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2008/01/29/the-six-ugliest-space-lego-sets/#comment-1974 I had both <a href="http://guide.lugnet.com/set/8859">the '81</a> and <a href="http://guide.lugnet.com/set/8849">the '86</a> Technic tractors, both of which are good models with good parts. But Technic, especially older Technic, has very little option but to be fairly unsightly; when everything had to be framed by beams with studs on, the result could never be all that great looking. (See <a href="http://www.ericalbrecht.com/technic/cars.html">the progression of the Super Cars</a> to see what the modern transition to liftarms and bendy bits did for the appearance of a series of related models.) But it's what a Technic model <i>does</i> that matters. What most Space models are made to do is be swooped around someone's bedroom, so it's more important that it be obvious which end is in fact the front. If, by the way, you're looking for a cheap small set that'll show you how today's mostly-liftarms Technic sets work, yet another tractor is probably the set you want. I have found by experiment that the little <a href="http://guide.lugnet.com/set/8281">8281 Mini Tractor</a> is an excellent present both for kids, and for adults-who-used-to-have-Lego. I had both the ‘81 and the ‘86 Technic tractors, both of which are good models with good parts. But Technic, especially older Technic, has very little option but to be fairly unsightly; when everything had to be framed by beams with studs on, the result could never be all that great looking.

(See the progression of the Super Cars to see what the modern transition to liftarms and bendy bits did for the appearance of a series of related models.)

But it’s what a Technic model does that matters. What most Space models are made to do is be swooped around someone’s bedroom, so it’s more important that it be obvious which end is in fact the front.

If, by the way, you’re looking for a cheap small set that’ll show you how today’s mostly-liftarms Technic sets work, yet another tractor is probably the set you want. I have found by experiment that the little 8281 Mini Tractor is an excellent present both for kids, and for adults-who-used-to-have-Lego.

]]> by: corinoco http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2008/01/29/the-six-ugliest-space-lego-sets/#comment-1973 Wed, 30 Jan 2008 11:31:48 +0000 http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2008/01/29/the-six-ugliest-space-lego-sets/#comment-1973 There's no such thing as 'ugly Lego' kits! Heck I even had the Technic Tractor because... because... it was MORE Technic bits! Especially those BIG wheels, which made fast rubber-band-powered dragsters. the 6929 Starfleet Voyager was bloody awesome. Had one. Still have the instructions, and the bits are likely in my 'old Lego mass storage'. It never touches my new Lego - when the did Star Wars + Lego they had me hook line &amp; sinker. Now, I covet the GIANT Millenium Falcon... nearly $1,000... must... pay... rent... There’s no such thing as ‘ugly Lego’ kits! Heck I even had the Technic Tractor because… because… it was MORE Technic bits! Especially those BIG wheels, which made fast rubber-band-powered dragsters.

the 6929 Starfleet Voyager was bloody awesome. Had one. Still have the instructions, and the bits are likely in my ‘old Lego mass storage’. It never touches my new Lego - when the did Star Wars + Lego they had me hook line & sinker.

Now, I covet the GIANT Millenium Falcon… nearly $1,000… must… pay… rent…

]]> by: Daniel Rutter http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2008/01/29/the-six-ugliest-space-lego-sets/#comment-1972 Wed, 30 Jan 2008 04:19:07 +0000 http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2008/01/29/the-six-ugliest-space-lego-sets/#comment-1972 <a href="http://www.peeron.com/inv/My_Parts">Someone has!</a> Someone has!

]]> by: jaws_au http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2008/01/29/the-six-ugliest-space-lego-sets/#comment-1971 Wed, 30 Jan 2008 00:44:40 +0000 http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2008/01/29/the-six-ugliest-space-lego-sets/#comment-1971 Someone should create a global database that would let me input the LEGO sets I own, and figure out which sets I could make from the parts. The world obviously is calling out for that. Someone should create a global database that would let me input the LEGO sets I own, and figure out which sets I could make from the parts.

The world obviously is calling out for that.

]]> by: SLATYE http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2008/01/29/the-six-ugliest-space-lego-sets/#comment-1970 Wed, 30 Jan 2008 00:32:01 +0000 http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2008/01/29/the-six-ugliest-space-lego-sets/#comment-1970 It looks like the two top wheels on the Robo Guardian would touch each other as well as the middle one on the bottom row, resulting in a complete lock-up. Even so, stranger things have been built: http://www.dself.dsl.pipex.com/MUSEUM/LOCOLOCO/holman/holman.htm It looks like the two top wheels on the Robo Guardian would touch each other as well as the middle one on the bottom row, resulting in a complete lock-up.

Even so, stranger things have been built:

http://www.dself.dsl.pipex.com/MUSEUM/LOCOLOCO/holman/holman.htm

]]> by: Catpain_Balkudder http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2008/01/29/the-six-ugliest-space-lego-sets/#comment-1968 Tue, 29 Jan 2008 21:10:02 +0000 http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2008/01/29/the-six-ugliest-space-lego-sets/#comment-1968 No! Robo Guardian was awesome! Not only were the head and the flier thingy interchangeable, but you could detach the lower half of the arms and attatch them to the head. Doing that gave you a flying robo-monster with arms! And the flier could be stored inside the back of the robot! I might have to try and find the box and rebuild it now... No! Robo Guardian was awesome! Not only were the head and the flier thingy interchangeable, but you could detach the lower half of the arms and attatch them to the head. Doing that gave you a flying robo-monster with arms!

And the flier could be stored inside the back of the robot!

I might have to try and find the box and rebuild it now…

]]> by: Phill http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2008/01/29/the-six-ugliest-space-lego-sets/#comment-1967 Tue, 29 Jan 2008 20:43:50 +0000 http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2008/01/29/the-six-ugliest-space-lego-sets/#comment-1967 Wow, for a minute there I almost "remembered" having Set 1593! It looked so familiar... until you mentioned 6880 and 6929. I had <i>those</i>! Oh, the shame of owning ugly Legos. I'm familiar with the feeling, 'coz I had 6951... I remember rebuilding it again a year or so after I got it, to see if it was as dumb as I remembered it. It was. Great parts, though. Wow, for a minute there I almost “remembered” having Set 1593! It looked so familiar… until you mentioned 6880 and 6929. I had those! Oh, the shame of owning ugly Legos. I’m familiar with the feeling, ‘coz I had 6951… I remember rebuilding it again a year or so after I got it, to see if it was as dumb as I remembered it. It was. Great parts, though.

]]> by: sockatume http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2008/01/29/the-six-ugliest-space-lego-sets/#comment-1966 Tue, 29 Jan 2008 18:23:31 +0000 http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2008/01/29/the-six-ugliest-space-lego-sets/#comment-1966 As a kid with no cash whatsoever, my minifigs were stuck scooting around in things like <a href="http://guide.lugnet.com/set/6811" rel="nofollow">this</a> and <a href="http://guide.lugnet.com/set/6833" rel="nofollow">this</a>, with space for skinny engines, at least, but no actual cockpit. At least my <a href="http://guide.lugnet.com/set/6813" rel="nofollow">Galactic Chief</a> could lord it over my brother's <a href="http://guide.lugnet.com/set/6814" rel="nofollow">Ice Planet Guy</a>, setting unreasonable parking fines and such. There was <a href="http://guide.lugnet.com/set/6856" rel="nofollow">this HST-on-some-scaffholding widget</a> which didn't even have a canopy. Eventually - around that passing stage of adolescence where I was going off Lego - I got my hands on <a href="http://guide.lugnet.com/set/6915" rel="nofollow">this thing</a>, which had one of my favourite minifigs <i>ever</i>. Hooray, a proper space ship! Sometimes I left out the little robot and decided that the section behind the pilot was all engine. Shame the legs couldn't go anywhere (except be popped off). As a kid with no cash whatsoever, my minifigs were stuck scooting around in things like this and this, with space for skinny engines, at least, but no actual cockpit. At least my Galactic Chief could lord it over my brother’s Ice Planet Guy, setting unreasonable parking fines and such. There was this HST-on-some-scaffholding widget which didn’t even have a canopy. Eventually - around that passing stage of adolescence where I was going off Lego - I got my hands on this thing, which had one of my favourite minifigs ever. Hooray, a proper space ship! Sometimes I left out the little robot and decided that the section behind the pilot was all engine. Shame the legs couldn’t go anywhere (except be popped off).

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